Student walkout of Pence speech draws SURPRISE reaction…

A handful of students at the Catholic University of Notre Dame protested Mike Pence’s speech as commencement speaker for views he holds that are perfectly in line with Catholic social teaching.

The protest took the form of a walkout, with a few dozen students (we counted around fifty from this aerial shot) getting up and walking out as Pence began his speech. The University boasts roughly 12,000 students, so the walkout has to be compared in the context of a graduating class of around 3,000 or so students.

They didn’t get much support from the student body – and the parents in the audience weren’t all too pleased with it either. Not long-after the students involved got up and began to walk away, you could hear loud boos (at 1:35 in the video below, right as students begin to walk out):

Meet Allen West

Allen West was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia in the same neighborhood where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once preached. He is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family.

During his 22 year career in the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones: in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was a Battalion Commander in the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and later in Afghanistan.